The Central Plains have always been occupied by Han Chinese, who think they are orthodox, and for the ethnic minorities in the four directions, they are naturally regarded as "barbarians", which has always been rejected. Conversely, the ethnic minorities living in the north also look down on the Han people in the Central Plains, believing that the Han people have no power to bind chickens and have yellow muscles on all sides. As a result, the ethnic minorities in the north went south, eliminated the Han regime in the Central Plains, and established a powerful imperial regime, the Yuan Dynasty.
Our basic impression of the Yuan Dynasty, with the exception of Kublai Khan, is probably a quaternary system. This system was clearly biased in favor of the Mongols and the Semites, and the oppression of the Han Chinese was self-evident. Moreover, when the Mongols conquered the south, they carried out bloody killings of the Han people, and it was not uncommon to slaughter the city.
After liquidating the power of the Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty set the capital Dadu and began to rule the Central Plains. At that time, the economic center of gravity had shifted south, and most of the areas around the capital had been red for thousands of miles, the people basically lived in the south, and the grain base was naturally in the south. Most of the capitals are administrative centers, and the issue of food has become an important issue. In order to solve this problem, the Yuan Dynasty began to dredge the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which had been silted up.
In order to dredge the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Yuan Dynasty recruited many Han people along the coast to participate in this life-threatening project, including the Zhu family living in Jinling (that is, Nanjing). At this time, the zhu family's parent was Zhu Chuyi, this person may not be familiar to everyone, but his grandson must have known everyone, that is, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.
At this time, the Zhu family, which had just settled down in the chaos of the war, had become a self-cultivating farmer with arable land by virtue of its own diligence, which was considered to be middle class at that time. But the Yuan Dynasty's order to issue conscription came down immediately. Zhu Chuyi knew what kind of life-threatening way to live, so he decided to give up his family business and flee to other places.
Zhu Chuyi took his two sons to live in Sizhou on the lower reaches of the Huai River. This place does not conscript servitude, why? Because this place has been abandoned by the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. Why was it abandoned? Because of the dredging of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the pressure of the Yellow River will naturally be borne by the Huai River, and the lower reaches of the Huai River will often be flooded. This is the law of ancient times, and this is a hard-hit area.
Here, the foreign Zhu Chuyi took his two sons to the blue wisps of the road to enlighten the mountain forest. He actually saved up a piece of land by his own hard work and lived a middle-class life. But it didn't take long for the Huai River to flood, flooding a large area of land on both sides of the river, including the land saved by Zhu Chuyi's father and son.
The famine caused the three to embark on a wandering journey again, with Zhu Chuyi's eldest son Zhu Wuyi traveling to Fengyang, Bozhou, while Zhu Chuyi's younger son Zhu Wusi (Zhu Yuanzhang's father) ran to Wuhe County in the middle reaches of the Huai River. There was still a flood in the area where Zhu Wusi was located, and he could not live in peace, he was hungry and full of food, and finally he was really poor and could not open the pot, so Zhu Wusi led his family to Bozhou to defect to Zhu Wuyi, and only then did he settle down.
However, they had not yet had a good time to eat, and the local officials' rampant conquests and tyrannical centuries followed, and Zhu Wuyi and Zhu Wusi, who were already poor, were exploited even poorer. In order to escape the harsh taxation, Zhu Wusi was hanged, and Zhu Yuanzhang continued to flee until he joined the Red Turban Army and threw himself into the army of overthrowing the brutal rule.
Our current understanding of the Yuan Dynasty is mainly in terms of artistic achievements, such as calligraphy, Yuanqu, miscellaneous dramas, etc., which shows that the politics of the Yuan Dynasty have a dark side. The migration history of Zhu Yuanzhang's family is also the history of the suffering of the Chinese people, and it is a history that shows the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty!